Word: cincinnatis
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With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...
...million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons "the most abundant and the most beautiful of American game birds," needed no protection. The last existing specimen died in Cincinnati in 1914. "One solitary heath hen was living at last accounts."* The catch of Pacific salmon has dropped from ten million pounds annually to less than one million. Enough timber is destroyed by forest fires every year to build a five-room house every 100 feet on both sides...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
Rendings T. Fels, '39, of Cincinnati, Ohio: "Freshmen in the Yard...
...Arbor, Mich, University of Michigan High School; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass., Malden High School; Richard M. Noyes, of Urbana, Ill., University High School; Frederic E. Pamp, of Roslindale, Mass., Roxbury Latin School; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Ill., Blom Township High School; Lee S. Rosenberg, of Cincinnati, O. Walnut Hills High School; Royal S. Schaaf, of New Yark, N. J. Exeter; Julius L. Shack, of Mattapan, Mass., Boston Latin School; and James Tobin, of Champaign Ill., University High School...